Computer Clock keeps changing back and forth

monkeysmasher · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 4:10 am **Post subject:**

hmmm, so you are saying hasselhoff isnt an alien replicant from beyond destined to become one of the four horsemen of apocalypse and the comming armegeddon? im sure he is, i mean he sings along to tapes of himself singing! what more proof is there?

or the computer stuff?
ahhh, i believe that these things can happen, seriously.not the hasselhoff stuff, i was kidding(more or less) about that.
so this time i will find info on contracting/expanding due to temperature changes, windows time sync hijacking, slow clock from high cpu usage,and tsr/vb virus affecting windows time, and then i will never offer advice to anybody about anything because i am a lazy lazy bastard,,,,,,
(i will put some links here)

monkeysmasher · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 4:24 am **Post subject:**

here ya go, mr science. this is about expansion/contraction of solder due to temperature changes-

hvvp://www.mfglinks.org/science.pdf

some other crap about temperature and ram-

'RAM chips/etc were put into sockets on the mobo, "chip-creep" was sometimes a problem. The thermal expansion/contraction caused by the circuits warming up to operating temperature and then dropping to power-off cold would cause the chips to creep up out of their sockets. A good hardware technician would just automatically press down on any socketed chips whenever he had the case open, to hear that satisfying crunch of the chips being reseated. You probably don't have any socketed chips, but the same sort of thing applies to solid connections as well, so you could be facing a hard-to-find broken solder joint, or a broken wire in the IDE cable, or any number of things.'

-(typing up windows timesync hijackers now)

wargand · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:42 am **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

come on monkey they are complete bull. :mrgreen:

Hey Spud,
at least this one is absolutely no "bull". This effect caused me much trouble when I worked as system administrator for a small company.

monkeysmasher wrote:

i'd guess low battery, but something i noticed effects the clock are constant high cpu. if your going at 100% consistently for hours that could effect your clock. old edonkey would do it to mine.

I does not even need to be 100% consistently for hours. To see a noticeable effect of a few seconds several minutes of high load might be enough. Now if you have some time syncing mechanism running you could get some time jumping.

monkeysmasher · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:14 pm **Post subject:**

ahh, i still say they are all posible, and not bull.
this will be the last i say bout this.

wargand · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:27 pm **Post subject:**

monkeysmasher wrote:

this will be the last i say bout this.

No, it won't :twisted:

But I did not mean that the others are bull. Just that I actually and painfully experienced such a high load clock skew.

Computer Clock keeps changing back and forth

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